CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Child Abduction
21 Apr 2013
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Well known critical constructionist and expert on social problems . Has written extensively about society"s focus on threatened children , child victims and troubled children . 1979-1981- stranger abductions started to receive national publicity. Term missing children first appears in 1981. Us senate holds first hearing on missing children in 1981. 1982- federal government passes missing children"s act. Formation of us attorney general"s advisory board on missing children (report published in 1986) By mid 1980s, photos of missing children started appearing on milk cartons, shopping bags, billboards, tv. National center for missing and exploited children. 1981: there are 50,000 stranger abductions of children every year! 1983: 20,000-50,000 children are snatched every year! Widely misstated fact that there were 1. 8 million missing children in the us (nobody knows where that number came from) 100, 000 missing children were abducted by non-custodial parents. Fbi said in 1984 they were only investigation 67 cases of stranger abductions of children.
